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WHEN: November 1, 2018 through February 28, 2019
Watch art happen in front of your eyes during Santa Fe Artists in Residence. At participating hotels and galleries, you will be able to meet, interact and see artists as they create jewelry, paintings, pottery and more. Be sure to take a piece home with youǃ

WHEN: November 22, 2018 - April 7, 2019
Ski Santa Fe is now open and beautifulǃ High altitude and abundance of sunshine promises ample gorgeous days on the mountain. Enjoy a range of terrain from beginner slopes to great tree runs. Get up to date information at the Ski Santa Fe website.

WHEN: Ongoing
There are 31 amazing margaritas on the Trail to tantalize your taste buds so you’re sure to find multiple favorites. The Santa Fe Margarita Trail promises to be one of your most memorable Santa Fe adventures. Download the app today.

WHEN: February 22 - March 3, 2019
Feast on delicious, three-course meals at a fraction of the cost. Restaurants will be offering prix-fixe dinners for ＄15, ＄25, ＄35, or ＄45 per person, depending upon the restaurant. Many will offer value-priced lunches as well.

This year, Santa Fe Restaurant Week is a supporter of the Santa Fe Margarita Trail, which features a downloadable App to help you explore some of the city's tastiest margaritas. Participating restaurants' pages will be designated part of the Margarita Trail. Visit SantaFe.org/MargaritaTrail for more information and download the app to get started.

WHEN: March 1 - April 21, 2019
It’s Kids Free Spring Break in Santa Fe, when kids eat, stay and play freeǃ During March through mid-April, take advantage of great deals in Santa Fe - from lodging, food, arts, culture, and other kid-friendly attractions. Start planning your family adventure todayǃ

WHEN: March 2 - 3, 2019
Do you love art? Do you love to tour homes? ARTsmart’s Art of Home Tour is what you’ve been looking forǃ Tour up to 15 remarkable residences, artfully appointed. Each home is filled with art from Santa Fe galleries, covering the gamut of artful living in The City Different. The homes are for sale and so is the artǃ

WHEN: March 11 - 12, 2019
Now in its 43rd year, the Banff Mountain Film Festival is the most prestigious international film competition of award-winning, thought-provoking, and often humorous films with subject matter ranging from remote landscapes and cultures to adrenaline-packed action sports, short films and documentaries about mountain culture, sports, and environment.

WHEN: March 17, 2019
The Symphony calls forth the spring with three greats—Mozart, Adams, and Dvořák. Join Maestro Guillermo Figueroa as he takes us through Adams’s “Foxtrot for Orchestra,” a fanciful and profound account of the 1972 visit to China by President Richard Nixon, followed by Mozart’s masterful Piano Concerto No. 20. Rounding out the afternoon of great music will be Dvořák’s magnificent Symphony No. 7, what many consider to be the pinnacle of his achievement as a composer.

WHEN: March 23, 2019
Local breweries will be pouring their delicious craft beer and Greg Butera and the Gunsels will be providing some rocking tunes. Join us for a day on the slopes paired with some of New Mexico’s great beersǃ This is a 21+ only event.

When: April 6, 2019
Test your Pond Skimming skills at Totemoff’s or just join us for the live music. Costumes are encouraged and registration is free. The “Winner” will receive a special Slush Cup Trophy.

WHEN: April 7, 2019
The 2019 New Mexico Bach Society Concerts feature Steinway Artist Jacquelyn Helin, violinist David Felberg and flutist Linda Marianiello in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Selections from the St. Matthew and St. John Passions and a motet highlight the vocal artistry of New Mexico’s own Bach Chorale.

WHEN: April 14, 2019
Under the baton of renowned Guest Conductor Dante Anzolini, The Symphony Orchestra will perform works by two of our greatest composersǃ Starting off this afternoon of great music will be Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201, followed by an extraordinarily rich body of work—Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, “A German Requiem.”

WHEN: April 18 - 20, 2019
The Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents this seasonal favorite in the perfect setting of the historic Loretto Chapel. Commemorate the joys and sorrows of the Easter season. This magical concert will feature music by Pergolesi.

WHEN: April 27 - 28, 2019
More than 30 artists sell their fine pottery and unique clay art. You'll see an impressive array of both functional and whimsical pottery as well as other clay pieces at this free event.

WHEN: May 10, 2019
For 40 years, the Grammy-award winning Emerson String Quartet has been known for a broad palette of tonal colors, and for the musical sensitivity and technical ability to seamlessly match those sounds, from instrument to instrument, in breathtakingly fine chamber playing.

WHEN: May 11, 2019
Immerse yourself in Santa Fe's Japanese community at its annual festival. Enjoy a fun-filled day featuring stage performances and activities reminiscent of the festivals of Japan. Visit many specialty vendors and enjoy traditional festival street food.

WHEN: May 11, 2019
Experience the world of art on Canyon Road during a day filled with music, food and fine art. The day begins with the Artist Quick Draw and continues with silent auctions, artistic demonstrations and entertainment. Dozens of artists working in every imaginable media will provide an unprecedented view of their creative processes.

WHEN: May 18 & 19, 2019
Visit more than 80 artist studios in this tour near Santa Fe. There's an impressive array of work to see and buy, including painting, ceramic, drawing, glass, jewelry, oil, photography, printmaking, sculpture, wood, and digital, fiber, wearable and recycled art.

WHEN: May 19, 2019
One hundred miles of history pass under your wheels as you bicycle down the ancient Turquoise Trail through the old mining towns of Madrid and Golden, villages and mountain passes on the Santa Fe Century Ride.

WHEN: May 24 - 26, 2019
Don’t miss the 15th Annual Native Treasures Art Market, one of Santa Fe’s museum-quality Indian art shows and sales. Over 200 Native American artists participate, each of whom is specially invited by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, to represent the best and brightest of the Indian art world.

WHEN: May 25 - 26, 2019
The Big Mountain Enduro 2019 season opener kicks off in Santa Fe with a one-day backcountry race entailing upwards of 8’000 feet of long rocky descents. Expect the raw terrain this event is known for, including new trail additions and non-shuttle pedal transfers the entire day. Expect fun and entertainment all weekend long for the entire family to enjoy, along with the great trails and good vibes that BME events have become known for.

WHEN: May 31 - June 2, 2019
The multi-day celebration of culinary bonanza and dazzling culture provides unparalleled spirited social excitement in the Land of Enchantment. The festival includes live entertainment, cocktail and food tastings, and world-class seminars.

WHEN: June 1 - 2, 2019
Come see what life was like on the Camino Real, Santa Fe Trail and Spanish Trail. Learn about the people, goods and livestock that came and went through the Southwest. Also, experience traditional ranch activities like sheep shearing, wool dyeing, spinning and weaving. Plus a fiber arts marketplace, bread baking and crafts for childrenǃ

WHEN June 1 - 30, 2019
This June Santa Fe will be overtaken by creators, makes, tech wizards, artists and everyone in between for Emerging Media Month. Enjoy art festivals and exhibitions, conferences for makers, designers, artists and cultural connoisseurs, lectures, workshops, film screenings, panel discussions, live music, intermedia performances and more.

WHEN: June 7 - 23, 2019
This feast for the eyes has entertained art-lovers off all ages with its interactive video and new media installations, multimedia performances, experimental documentaries, workshops and moreǃ Don’t miss this citywide pageant of cutting-edge curiosities—and best of all, most events and programs are free.

WHEN: June 8 - 9, 2019
This annual juried arts and crafts show features the work of more than 150 national and local artists. Proceeds from the booth fees benefit Challenge New Mexico, a non-profit organization that provides therapeutic recreation for the disabled.

WHEN: June 12th - July 31th, 2019 - Wednesday Evenings 6-8PM
A free, family-friendly, summer concert series presented by St. John’s College. Bring your picnic, meet up with friends, and enjoy live music on the hill. Concerts are on Wednesday evenings in June and July from 6 to 8 p.m. at the St. John’s athletic field. Enjoy a musical lineup featuring blues, soul, folk and jazz.

ARTsmart’s popular Edible Art Tour is a two-night festival of great art and gastronomical delights. Walk and eat your way from gallery to gallery tasting food from Santa Fe’s best restaurants and caterers. This year Friday night will highlight downtown Santa Fe galleries and Saturday night will feature Canyon Road galleries.

WHEN: June 14 - 16, 2019
The InterPlanetary Festival will draw space enthusiasts from around the world for a two-day celebration of human ingenuity. The festival transforms the Railyard District in downtown Santa Fe with an expo showcasing innovation and technology for space exploration. Concurrent with the expo, participants can enjoy open-air concerts, maker spaces, lectures and panel discussions, a Sci-Fi film showcase, art installations, and cosplay and gaming centered around interplanetary topics and citizen science.

WHEN: June 18 - August 24, 2019
Santa Fe Bandstand is a free, outdoor music festival in the historic downtown Plaza and other locations throughout the city. Over 100 Rock, Country, Native American, Jazz, and Mariachi bands play for free throughout the summer. Come kick up your heels with the locals and experience Santa Fe's music scene. Be sure and check the schedule for each week as performance days vary.

WHEN: June 19 - 22, 2019
From barrel racing to bareback and bull riding, Rodeo de Santa Fe has it all and has been roping the hearts of cowboys and rodeo fans since 1949. Get ready for the heart-pounding, dirt-slinging, action-packed performances of top PRCA rodeo athletes and top PRCA rodeo entertainment. Big time rodeo, with a small town feeling.

WHEN: June 21 - 23, 2019
The roads of GFNY Santa Fe will take riders through the spectacular and diverse terrain of The City Different. Enjoy a weekend of cycling events, including the 81-mile Long course, with 7,500 feet of climbing and the 55-mile Medium course, with 3,300 feet of climbing. Both routes start in downtown Santa Fe.

WHEN: June 22 - 23 & 29 - 30, 2019
This free event offers the rare opportunity for the public to see the original art of more than 60 Santa Fe artists—right in their own studios. The self-guided tour held over two weekends, features paintings, photography, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics and other unique works. Many artists give demonstrations of their craft, share techniques and discuss what inspired their work.

WHEN: June 28 - 29, 2019
Santa Fe Fashion Week is a place to celebrate fashion, and a platform for fashion industry professionals to showcase their work. Enjoy shows and model workshops, which highlight Southwest and American West fashion design, as well as the beautiful rainbow of other cultural fashions from all over the worldǃ

WHEN: July 6 - 7, 2019
El Rancho de las Golondrinas is the quintessential setting for a wine festival. Celebrate the season with wines from New Mexico wineries, mouthwatering food from local food vendors and plenty of live music. Don’t miss the longest running wine festival in the state.

WHEN: July 12 - 14, 2019
Experience the world’s largest international folk art market. 160 master artists from over 50 countries will bring their work to this vast and colorful international bazaar. Some will arrive as celebrated cultural artists, while others will have never before left their villages, let alone crossed an ocean. Purchase one-of-a-kind, handmade pieces ranging from pottery and rugs to clothing, jewelry and so much more.

WHEN: July 14 - August 19, 2019
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival has become one of the world's preeminent music festivals. This annual event invites scores of distinguished musicians, along with emerging young talent to perform. Patrons return year after year to enjoy more than 40 concerts each season.

WHEN: July 17 - August 11, 2019
Experience A-rated equestrian competition with sunshine and warm hospitality. Enjoy premier hunter jumper competition with a southwestern flairǃ This four-week event includes delicious farm-to-table inspired food and handcrafted beer and wine. You can also shop for jewelry, art and equine merchandise at the HIPICO Market Place.

WHEN: July 18 - 21, 2019
Explore an amazing array of contemporary and modern art at Art Santa Fe. The show features extraordinary artwork from local, national, and international artists and galleries, as well as specially curated show programming, live entertainment, and other exclusive events.

WHEN: July 20 - August 9, 2019
The Desert Chorale Summer Festival Season is a centerpiece of the cultural life of Santa Fe, and among the nation’s most significant choral events. The ensemble performs at historical sites in Santa Fe such as the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi and Loretto Chapel, as well as other venues throughout the Southwest.

WHEN: July 27 - 28, 2019
This annual market showcases contemporary works made by local Hispanic artists. Shop original artwork in the mediums of painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, furniture, jewelry, ceramics, weaving and much more.

WHEN: July 27 - 28, 2019
A popular event for residents and visitors alike, Spanish Market features handmade traditional art from hundreds of local Hispanic artists, as well as on-going live music and dance, art demonstrations, and regional foods throughout each day.

WHEN: August 3 - 4, 2019
Explore the food history of New Mexico at El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Step back in time, as you taste your way through the history of the Land of Enchantment. Experience historic methods of food preparation, learn from food historians, attend demonstrations, sample delicious locally made creations and find something special from our vendors and artisans.

WHEN: August 8 - 11, 2019
Featuring 70 exhibitors, with material ranging from contemporary to historic. The show will include paintings, sculpture, fine art of all kinds, furniture, books, fashion, jewelry, textiles, and tribal, folk, American Indian, African, and Asian art – Objects of Art from around the world.

WHEN: August 9 - 12, 2019
The Whitehawk Shows have been a Santa Fe tradition for 40 years. With over 100 dealers featuring merchandise not seen anywhere else, these shows offer something for the ultimate collector, as well as the beginner collector.

WHEN: Opening: August 13; Show: August 14-16, 2019
One of the most anticipated shows of the summer art season. This exhibit and sale of historic Indian art brings together more than 65 experts in American Indian art and thousands of historic art objects from indigenous cultures throughout the U.S. and Canada.

WHEN: August 15 - 16, 2019
The 2-day event features juried high quality contemporary and traditional indigenous art and festive celebration that includes music, dance, fashion, and culinary art. The event will host approximately 100 indigenous artists, representing a diversity of cultures and regions.

WHEN: August 16 - 18, 2019
The Zia Regional Rodeo competition is one stop along the way of a season-long series of rodeo competitions across the U.S. and Canada. Produced by the New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association, this rodeo event includes everything from bull riding to chute dogging, with roping, speed and camp events such as barrel racing and goat dressing. The top 20 cowboys and cowgirls in each of the rodeo events qualify for the World Gay Rodeo Finals.

WHEN: August 17 - 18, 2019
Celebrate Native arts and culture at the largest and most prestigious intertribal fine art market in the world. Meet and shop with over 1,000 of the “best of the best” Native artists and designers. Witness exciting contemporary evolution and growth, as Native fine art is passed on to new generations.

WHEN: August 23 - September 2, 2019
Join us for the second annual Santa Fe Music Week, featuring local and national artists in venues across Santa Fe, including: the Santa Fe Opera, The Lensic, the Santa Fe Railyard and more. Don’t miss free performances every afternoon and evening at the Bandstand in the Historic Plaza. From jazz to latin, rock and country, you’ll find music to delight all members of the family.

WHEN: August 30, 2019
Kick off your Labor Day weekend with an experience like none otherǃ Amid fireworks and the ceremonial dances of ghosts and fire, Zozobra is set ablaze by torches. As Old Man Gloom burns, it is said that with him go the feelings of gloom and doom from the past year. The sound of the groaning Zozobra can be heard throughout the city and for miles around. Created by local Santa Fe artists over 90 years ago and now sponsored by the Santa Fe Kiwanis Club, this event draws thousands of visitors, rain or shine, and is the official kick-off for the Santa Fe Fiestas.

WHEN: August 31 - September 8, 2019
If there’s one tradition that captures the spirit of Santa Fe, it’s the annual celebration, Fiestas de Santa Fe. This event is the longest continuously running celebration in the U.S.ǃ With a Pet Parade, Mariachi Extravaganza, the Burning of Zozobra, concerts and more, Fiestas de Santa Fe is a feast for all the senses.

WHEN: September, 2019
The High Road Art Tour is a destination and an event. Each fall in northern New Mexico artists on the High Road to Taos open their studios and galleries. The High Road Art Tour allows visitors to see multiple arts and crafts, traditional and contemporary, created by local artists. This is a great opportunity to purchase directly from the artists.

WHEN: September, 2019
The Pecos Studio Tour is made up of a loosely knit group of artists living in and around the village of Pecos in northeastern New Mexico. Located 20 minutes from Santa Fe (I-25 North), this small community hosts a blend of unique people. Besides artists in all media, many residents have long historic and cultural ties to the area.

This community of artists may be small, but you'll find a large selection of paintings, pottery, textiles and more during this annual tour of artist studios and galleries.

WHEN: September 7, 2019
It's the battle of the burgers as local chefs go head to head to see who will win this year's best green chile cheeseburger title. Local breweries will be offering tastings to go with your burger taste test.

WHEN: September 15, 2019
Dropping a net 1,000 feet into the Rio Grande Valley, the USATF certified point-to-point course is as fast as it is scenicǃ Come share the culture, history, flavor and vistas that make Santa Fe unique.

WHEN: September 21 - 22, 2019
Discover the wealth of creative talent of the three cultures of the beautiful Pojoaque River Valley. Visitors will enjoy a wide variety of quality art and craft by Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo artists along the tour route, which can be navigated in a single day.

WHEN: September 22 - 29, 2019
This annual event highlights the culinary artistry found in Santa Fe’s many excellent restaurants coupled with the sophistication of wines from around the world. Enjoy a week of food and wine events featuring cooking demos, seminars, winery luncheons and dinners. The weekend culminates with the Grand Tasting at the Santa Fe Opera where all 75 participating Santa Fe restaurants and all 100 wineries serve samples of their best offerings.

Museum Shows

WHEN June 3, 2018 - May 27, 2019
This exhibit explores the most famous events, sometimes little known stories, and inventions born here which impact our lives, and helps to recognize the remarkable contributions of thousands of people involved in writing New Mexico’s Atomic Histories for the last 75 years. Two large-scale installations by Meridel Rubenstein are featured in this exhibition.

WHEN: Through February 28, 2019
The New Mexico History Museum celebrates this era with sheet music of popular songs about the State of New Mexico, dating from the mid-19th through the mid-20th centuries, in the new exhibition The Land That Enchants Me So. The show spotlights graphically striking sheet-music covers published from 1840s through about 1960, along with other printed materials, sound recordings, and memorabilia relating to New Mexico and its musical life.

WHEN: Long Term Exhibit
Telling New Mexico: Stories from Then and Now, the main exhibition of the New Mexico History Museum, sweeps across more than 500 years of stories - from early Native inhabitants to today’s residents - with stories told through artifacts, films, photographs, computer interactives, oral histories and more. Together, they breath life into the people who made the American West: Native Americans, Spanish colonists, Mexican traders, Santa Fe Trail riders, fur trappers, outlaws, railroad men, scientists, hippies and artists.

WHEN: Through July 17, 2019
This exhibition explores the new directions taken by current Peruvian folk artists during the recent decades of social and political upheaval and economic change. The exhibition will highlight the biographies and social histories of contemporary artists along with examples of work that preserve family tradition, reimagine older artforms, reclaim pre-Columbian techniques and styles, and forge new directions for arte popular in the 21st century.

WHEN: Long Term Exhibit
Though the source of the Segesser Hide Paintings is obscure, their significance cannot be clearer: the hides are rare examples of the earliest known depictions of colonial life in the United States. Moreover, the tanned and smoothed hides carry the very faces of men whose descendants live in New Mexico today.

WHEN: Long Term Exhibit
Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción contains bultos, retablos, and crucifijos dating from the late 1700s to 1900 which illustrate the distinctive tradition of santo making in New Mexico introduced by settlers from Mexico.

WHEN: Long Term Exhibit
Each tableau has a narrative story showcasing Alexander Girard's imagination and sentiment towards these pieces. It's a glimpse into his world and mind, a place where he shares the inspiration for most of his work; the colors, shapes, and simplicity in form.

WHEN: Long Term Exhibit
Santa Fe Found serves as living proof of how the lives of the founders were lived, including who they married, the hardships they faced, the tools they used and the foods they ate. (Hint: Carne Adovada was generations away; turkey, deer and rabbit were often the dish of the day.)

WHEN: May 5 - October 27, 2019
Alexander Girard was one of the most influential interior and textile designers of the 20th century. Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe is the first major retrospective on Girard’s work, organized by the Vitra Design Museum in Germany. It opens a door to his creative universe and shows his close relationships with contemporaries such as Charles & Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Andy Warhol, Rudi Gernreich, and many others. Featured are Girard’s designs in textiles, furniture, and sculptures, as well as numerous sketches, drawings, and collages never shown before.

WHEN: October 26, 2018 - July 28, 2019
A fascinating look back at more than a century of changing exhibition design in the historic state museum system. This “exhibit about exhibits” reveals how presentation techniques evolved over the years and helped establish the unique character of the Santa Fe’s museums.

WHEN: Long Term Exhibit, opening November 11, 2018
New Mexico achieved statehood just two short years before the Great War broke out in Europe in 1914. Recruitment in the nascent state was aggressive, and New Mexicans stepped up to serve in large numbers. The global conflict ended with the signing of the armistice Nov. 11, 1918.

On the 100th anniversary of the signing of the armistice, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, this new permanent exhibition opens and features the stories, images and letters from New Mexicans who served.

WHEN: December 16, 2018 - August 25, 2019
A founder of the International Folk Art Market and former owner of the famous Clay Angel shop in Santa Fe, Judith Espinar has collected some of the world’s best folk art. Comprising primarily ceramic traditions from Mexico, Spain, France, Hungary, and Morocco, the collection also includes rich holdings of New Mexico santos, Latin American retablos and metalwork, furniture and textiles from around the world. The exhibition brings together the various voices of international cultures and living traditions, through the vision of one collector.

WHEN: December 15, 2018 - March 31, 2019
Bringing art off the walls and into three dimensions, Carved & Cast showcases sculpture in a range of media, genres, and styles that New Mexican artists utilized over the last century. The exhibition highlights the various ways sculpture engages with the cultural, social, and aesthetic interests of the Southwest by spotlighting significant sculptors in the Museum of Art collection.

WHEN: October 5, 2018 - March 24, 2019
This solo exhibition features a range of new and recent works from New-York based artist, Jacob Hashimoto. It explores the balance of the natural world, and Hashimoto’s longtime fascination with the intersections of painting and sculpture, abstraction and landscape.

WHEN: Last Friday of the Month
Held the last Friday of every month, this exciting world-class contemporary art experience opens up the hip Railyard Arts District at night. RAD (The Railyard Art District), a cooperative of 10 Railyard art galleries, hosts its "Last Friday Art Walk" throughout the Railyard.

WHEN: 1st Friday of the Month (seasonal)
Participating Canyon Road galleries remain open until 7pm every first Friday of the month. Enjoy refreshments and entertainment while strolling this historic art district.

New Mexico is home to 19 pueblos, including the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos located north of Santa Fe. One of the top reasons many people visit Santa Fe is to respectfully attend a Native American celebration and learn more about this important part of our culture. View the schedule of Pueblo Feast Days and Tribal Celebrations. Please be sure to contact the respective Tribe, Nation or Pueblo directly to inquire about times and dates, as schedules may vary.